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Re: Two different terminal buffers


From: Teemu Likonen
Subject: Re: Two different terminal buffers
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:12:43 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

* 2011-09-25T07:14:45-07:00 * Mazen A. wrote:

> On 11-09-25 06:51 AM, Jai Dayal wrote:
>> C-x 3 to split the buffers.
>>
>> the in each buffer, M-x shell

> Thanks, Jai. This will create two buffers with the same shell. What I
> am after are two windows with two different instances of shell.

About terminology: "M-x shell" starts an interactive interface for shell
(that is, a command-line interpreter like /bin/bash). It's not a
terminal; in the subject you wrote "terminal buffers".

It is also possible to run text terminals in Emacs: "M-x term". Shell
can be run inside such terminal.



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